I waded through chest-high goldenrod and laurel toward a favorite brook trout stream in northcentral Pennsylvania and paused beside a shallow riffle. Just upstream, a small three-foot pocket formed between mossy sandstone boulders and a decaying log looked promising. Overhanging hemlocks shaded the spot, while behind me, weeds threatened my back cast. I had one […]
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Don’t let one mistake ruin your day. Follow this advice for safe and fun fly fishing adventures.
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Don’t let one mistake ruin your day. Follow this advice for safe and fun fly fishing adventures.
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In the springtime, driving along popular stretches of streams and creeks often gives way to multiple cars in every pull off and numbers of fisherman stacked up in likely runs and pools. This scenario occurs as regularly in stocked put-and-take waters as it does special regulations sections. Sometimes, finding a place to strategically work with
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The Micro Mayfly did not make my initial list of confidence flies. Nevertheless, it is just too effective to leave off. As with the Frenchie and Shop Vac, the Micro Mayfly is one of my go-to tag patterns. As a matter of fact, fishing the Micro Mayfly is identical to fishing the Shop Vac as
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Summertime wild browns love eating the Green Weenie. I will never, ever be caught dead on a Class A brown trout stream in July, August, and September without a dubious quantity of Green Weenies in my fly box. In fact, both limestone and freestone wild browns crush the Green Weenie in the summertime when fished
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Other than a standard Walt’s Worm, the Shop Vac has likely taken more small limestone spring creek fish for me than any other fly. This is a Western pattern from West Yellowstone, MT, also introduced to me by Grumpy Dave. He discovered this nymph on a fishing trip to the Madison River. Let me tell
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Earlier this spring, upon taking off my boots and stripping free of my waders, I discovered my wool sock was quite damp. I didn’t think too much of it because I do sweat a lot and the mid-May days were quite warm. As I spent additional days on the water, my right foot continued to
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The Frenchie is the first Euro nymphing-specific pattern that I ever encountered. As a matter of fact, the Frenchie fly is so similar to Frank Sawyer’s Pheasant Tail Nymph that only the addition of a hotspot and heavy weight really separates it from the original. From what I’ve read, Lance Egan developed, or introduced this
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The France Fly is a pattern that I recently discovered and started fishing the spring season of 2024. I first came across this simple pattern in Josh Miller’s book Euro Nymphing: Tips, Tactics and Techniques. Rarely does a new nymph pattern outperform my favorite confidence flies such as Walt’s Worm, Hare and Copper, Eggstasy
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